Saturday 22 March : ‘Virtual Voices’
‘Virtual Voices’ 5-6.30pm featuring Martin Kennedy Yates, Kenton Samuels, Deborah Harvey and Rick Sanders. Hosted by Cherry Doyle and Kuli Kohli. Pay-as-you-feel event.
ZOOM LINK…
Saturday 1 February : Poetry workshop on ‘Trees in the City’
Kuli Kohli and Simon Fletcher will be running a poetry workshop on ‘Trees in the City’, 11am-1pm, starting and ending at the Art Gallery, Lichfield St, Wolverhampton WV1 1DU, in the ‘Creation’ room. Poems created at this workshop may be considered for the ‘Seeing the Trees’ an-thology Simon and Kuli are editing for Offa’s Press.
For the full programme at this year’s Wolverhampton Literature Festival go to: www.wolvesliteraturefestival.co.uk
Tickets for all WLF events here…
Sunday 2 February : ‘South Asian Women Poets’
‘South Asian Women Poets’ An exciting poetry reading with Navkiran Mann, Priyanka Joshi, Santosh K. Dary & Kuli Kohli at the Art Gallery, Lichfield St, Wolverhampton WV1 1DU, 11am-12 noon. Tickets as above.
Sunday 2 February : ‘Nature Crisis’
‘Nature Crisis’ environmental poetry reading at this time of deep concern for nature with Ros Woolner, Tom Allsopp, Cherry Doyle, Kuli Kohli & Simon Fletcher at the Art Gallery, Lichfield St, Wolverhampton WV1 1DU, 1-2pm. Tickets as above.
Tuesday 4 February : The Poetry Readers’ Group
The Poetry Readers’ Group meets at the White Hart, 10, Wharfage, Ironbridge, Telford, TF8 7AW, 2-4 pm, and the theme will be the galaxy, stars, sun and moon etc.
For more information about the new venue or the event contact Paul Francis: francisliberty@btinternet.com
Thursday 6 February : ‘Lovestruck’
‘Lovestruck’ Blackout Poetry 4 Valentine’s Day at Tettenhall Library with Jane Seabourne 11am-1pm. Tettenhall Library, 1-3 Upper Street, Tettenhall, Wolverhampton, WV6 8QF.
Free event
Tuesday 11 February : ‘It’s Honorary, Bab’
‘It’s Honorary, Bab’ Emma Purshouse will be giving a talk 2-3.30pm at the Goodyear Pavilion, Stafford Road, Wolverhampton, WV10 6AJ about being the first Poet Laureate for the City of Wolverhampton. She will be explaining to the members of ‘Wolverhampton Friendship Centre 050’ what the work of the Poet Laureate entails and sharing examples of the creative work that she completed during her tenure.
Non-members are welcome to attend. If you would like to book a place then contact Petra Wielgosz, 07955631926.
Members £4; non-members £7.
